Leaping Leo

[Captain]

I thought Leo showed a bit today and is starting to move back to his best form.

Took a couple of beautiful marks, ran through the ball, was tough and showed heaps of courage.

Keep it up Leo.

[Triple B]

Showed a bit!!!

Understatement of the highest order.

Kept Williams, who has been the only Hawk forward earning his keep lately, to ONE possession, as well as getting plenty of the ball himself.

Sensational today.

[dendol]

Originally posted by BBB
Showed a bit!!!

Understatement of the highest order.

Kept Williams, who has been the only Hawk forward earning his keep lately, to ONE possession, as well as getting plenty of the ball himself.

Sensational today.

Yep, close to BOG today i think. I can recall two spoils in the dying minutes of the last quarter where the Hawks would have had a chance to win from a straight kick only 20-30 metres out, but Leo was there to difuse the situation. Well done. He was awesome today.

[Margie]

His courage was inspirational and even when he has a bit of a "brain explosion" when he gets the ball, it only serves to add to the excitement. A great game by Leo today.

[Cheer Cheer]

Originally posted by dendol
Yep, close to BOG today i think. I can recall two spoils in the dying minutes of the last quarter where the Hawks would have had a chance to win from a straight kick only 20-30 metres out, but Leo was there to difuse the situation. Well done. He was awesome today.

Spot on. Easily in our top 3 players. He played a game today reminisent of crouch's game on Jeff Farmer in rd2.

[Tooth Fairy]

Yep, great game by Leo. Great game by the whole team (well in patches) but what I'm getting at is like what I posted with regards to geelong last night... They just kept throwing their bodies in and kept believing that they would win.

Jooba was great in that last quarter too I reckon, and not just because he kicked the winning goal. Jooba's defensive work in that quarter was inspirational.

[Nico]

As no one has mentioned Nicks I will. He may not have had a lot of the footy, but in the 3rd Q he did a couple of long, quick, well weighted kicks into the forward line resulting in goals. Good long kicks in our forward line have been almost non existant this season and finally someone had the nous to put it to the top of the square.

Hsosessio were cean and if Nicks can get a bit more of the footy it can only help improve the team.

Again our kicking into the forward line was lamentable, and for the amount of footy we had we should have been 10 goals in front at 3Qtr time.

By the way Maxfield played a much better game also.

[ScottH]

He also spoiled in front of a rampaging Spider a few times without getting cleaned up!! Pretty courageous.

And, does anyone else have there heart in the mouth when he runs hard out of defence then stops not knowing where to go next!!!

Brereton said he admits he has know idea where he is going when runs out of D50. He just gets the ball and goes hard.

[NMWBloods]

Yep, some good efforts by Barry and Nicks.

[Bear]

Originally posted by Nico
As no one has mentioned Nicks I will. He may not have had a lot of the footy, but in the 3rd Q he did a couple of long, quick, well weighted kicks into the forward line resulting in goals. Good long kicks in our forward line have been almost non existant this season and finally someone had the nous to put it to the top of the square.

Hsosessio were cean and if Nicks can get a bit more of the footy it can only help improve the team.

Again our kicking into the forward line was lamentable, and for the amount of footy we had we should have been 10 goals in front at 3Qtr time.

By the way Maxfield played a much better game also.

.. and Leo??

[Go Swannies]

Originally posted by Nico
As no one has mentioned Nicks I will.

I posted in praise of Nicks on a different thread. He seems to have a picked up a Willo role - get the ball, find space and run up the guts and kick to the forwards. Simple really.

[TheHood]

Leo was at his courageous best today. Really cranky he got pinged for that "travel" thing, ironically Leo has more bounces per meter than any other player in the AFL! ha

As for Nicksy, I thought he was a smokey across half-back for us today. Schwaby would not have thought him a danger man, so some space was afforded and Nicksy did the right thing.

[Mike_B]

Originally posted by TheHood
Leo was at his courageous best today. Really cranky he got pinged for that "travel" thing, ironically Leo has more bounces per meter than any other player in the AFL! ha

It's not something you see very often these days, especially from Leo, but the free against was there - that little swerve and few more steps was just a little bit too much.

[Bear]

thoght that decision was a shocker... 9/10 of them are not paid. 13 steps is not out of the ordinary, espec when a couple are sideways.

[Triple B]

In 99% of cases when players get pinged for 'too far' you sort of know that it is close, but today's one was bizarre. When the whistle blew I thought Leo must have been taken out and a free was being paid downfield as I was following the ball. I just couldn't beleive he had been pinged.

Did the ump miss the bounce????